Accipiter gundlachi

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Overview

Endangered

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests • Maximum Elevation: 900 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Cuba • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 586 meters (0 to 1,923 feet).[1]

Ecology: It is found up to 800 m in a variety of wooded habitats including humid, dry and pine forests1. It preys mostly on birds, including poultry. The breeding season is February-May, with young fledging by June1,2. The nest is generally placed close to the trunk of a high tree , but below the canopy .[2]


List of Habitats:1.5Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry 1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Accipiter

There are approximately 254 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. aequatorialis · A. affinis · A. albogularis (Pied Goshawk) · A. albogularis albogularis (Pied Goshawk) · A. albogularis eichhorni · A. albogularis gilvus · A. albogularis sharpei · A. albogularis woodfordi · A. archboldi · A. badius (Little Banded Goshawk) · A. badius badius (Little Banded Goshawk) · A. badius butleri · A. badius cenchroides · A. badius dussumieri · A. badius kenya · A. badius obsoletus · A. badius poliopsis · A. badius polyzonoides · A. badius sphenurus · A. batesi · A. beniensis · A. bicolor (Bicoloured Sparrow Hawk) · A. bicolor bicolor (Bicoloured Sparrow Hawk) · A. bicolor chilensis · A. bicolor fidens · A. bicolor guttifer · A. bicolor pileatus · A. brachyurus (New Britain Collared Sparrow Hawk) · A. brevipes (Levant Sparrowhawk) · A. buergersi (Chestnut-Shouldered Goshawk) · A. butleri (Nicobar Sparrowhawk) · A. butleri butleri (Nicobar Sparrowhawk) · A. butleri obsoletus · A. castanilius (Chestnut-Bellied Sparrow Hawk) · A. castanilius beniensis · A. castanilius castanilius · A. chilensis · A. chionogaster (White-Breasted Hawk) · A. cirrhocephalus (Australian Collared Sparrow Hawk) · A. cirrhocephalus cirrhocephalus (Australian Collared Sparrow Hawk) · A. cirrhocephalus papuanus · A. cirrocephalus (Australian Collared Sparrow Hawk) · A. cirrocephalus cirrocephalus (Australian Collared Sparrow Hawk) · A. cirrocephalus papuanus · A. cirrocephalus rosselianus · A. collaris (Semi-Collared Sparrow Hawk) · A. cooperi · A. cooperii (Big Blue Darter) · A. dukhunensis · A. efficax · A. eichhorni · A. erythrauchen (Grey Moluccan Collared Sparrow Hawk) · A. erythrauchen ceramensis · A. erythrauchen erythrauchen · A. erythronemius (Rufous-Thighed Hawk) · A. erythropus (Red-Thighed Sparrow Hawk) · A. erythropus erythropus (Red-Thighed Sparrow Hawk) · A. erythropus zenkeri · A. fasciatus (Christmas Island Nighthawk) · A. fasciatus buruensis · A. fasciatus didimus · A. fasciatus dogwa · A. fasciatus fasciatus (Australian Goshawk) · A. fasciatus hellmayri · A. fasciatus natalis (Christmas Island Nighthawk) · A. fasciatus polycryptus · A. fasciatus savu · A. fasciatus stresemanni · A. fasciatus tjendanae · A. fasciatus vigilax · A. fasciatus wallacii · A. francesiae (Frances's Sparrowhawk) · A. francesiae brutus · A. francesiae francesiae · A. francesiae griveaudi · A. francesiae pusillus · A. francesii (Anjouan Island Sparrow Hawk) · A. francesii francesii (Frances's Sparrowhawk) · A. francesii griveaudi · A. francesii pusillus (Anjouan Island Sparrow Hawk) · A. fuscus · A. gentilis (Northern Goshawk) · A. gentilis albidus · A. gentilis apache (Apache Northern Goshawk) · A. gentilis arrigonii · A. gentilis atricapillus (Northern Goshawk) · A. gentilis buteoides · A. gentilis fujiyamae · A. gentilis gallinarum (Northern Goshawk) · A. gentilis gentilis (Northern Goshawk) · A. gentilis kleinschmidti · A. gentilis laingi (Queen Charlotte Goshawk) · A. gentilis marginatus · A. gentilis schvedowi · A. granti · A. griseiceps (Sulawesi Crested Goshawk) · A. gularis (Japanese Lesser Sparrow Hawk) · A. gularis gularis (Japanese Lesser Sparrow Hawk) · A. gularis iwasakii · A. gularis sibericus

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Further Reading

• A history of North American birds, by S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Land birds, illustrated by 64 chromo-lithographic plates and 593 woodcuts. Boston, Little, Brown, 1875. ENG url p. 223.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- ENG url p. 161, p. 547.
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 101, p. 180, p. 181, p. 8.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr and Boardman Conover. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1949. ENG url p. 60.
• Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
• Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
• Des hybrides 't sauvage. Re animal. 1. volume. (Classe des oiseaux) par Andruchetet Lille, Impr. Le Bigot frs, 1896. FRE url p. 470.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. ENG url p. 469.
• Mires de la Soci zoologique de France. Paris: Au Siege de la Soci, 1888- FRE url p. 43.
• Notes on some neotropical hawks [by] Boardman Conover. [Chicago]1946. ENG url p. 41.
• Ornithologische Monatsschrift. Magdeburg [etc.], Kommissions-Verlag der Creutschen Verlagsbuchhandlung. GER url p. 229.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Accipiter gundlachi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851507
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175323
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13543107
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175323
• IUCN ID: 40677
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 133823

Footnotes

1. Mean = -77.080 meters (-252.887 feet), Standard Deviation = 633.460 based on 12 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]

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